Whether financial services executives love or hate Bitcoin, experts say the digital currency's underlying technology will inevitably affect their businesses. And the next generation of consumers are driving this change. For decades, cryptographers have tried to disrupt the payments in...

Kim Kardashian may be an overexposed reality star, but she's also a tech entrepreneur with a short-lived past in the payments industry. And several companies in the Bitcoin space are repeating her biggest mistake by offering a plastic payment card. Four years ago, Kardashian tried to ...

NCR's updating its NCR Silver point of sale system to support Bitcoin transactions as retailer acceptance of virtual currency starts to accelerate. The support will be provided free of charge to merchants, requiring only an activation on their end to start accepting the cryptocurrency...

Biometric authentication may seem all the rage now that Apple uses fingerprint authentication in its mobile wallet, but the Bitcoin ATM provider RoboCoin has concluded that biometric technology can be more of a hassle than a help. Las Vegas-based RoboCoin started accepting pre-orders ...

As regulators heighten their scrutiny of Bitcoin businesses, several digital currency supporters are looking for business models that do not subject them to the cumbersome requirements they would face as money services businesses or money transmitters. Brawker, a Bitcoin company incor...

Bitcoin has come a long way from its meager beginning in 2009, when one bitcoin was worth a fraction of a penny. As its price and popularity grows, the decentralized digital currency is racking up a pretty note-worthy list of celebrity endorsers. The Most Entrepreneurial Man in the Wo...

BitPay's recent decision to eliminate its fees for small merchants sacrifices some of the company's revenue to boost the larger Bitcoin economy. The Atlanta, Ga.-based company's investors are in support of the move as part of BitPay's efforts to demonstrate that a large market exists ...

To say Josh Rossi is outgoing would be an incredible understatement. The 32-year-old Bitcoin entrepreneur knows no one who isn't a friendor a potential business partner. Rossi is best known for starting the first Satoshi Square , a gathering of Bitcoin enthusiasts who trade the virtua...